CARMINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does carmine mean? 

• CARMINE (noun)
  The noun CARMINE has 1 sense:

1. a variable color averaging a vivid red

  Familiarity information: CARMINE used as a noun is very rare.

• CARMINE (adjective)
  The adjective CARMINE has 1 sense:

1. of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies

  Familiarity information: CARMINE used as an adjective is very rare.

• CARMINE (verb)
  The verb CARMINE has 1 sense:

1. color carmine

  Familiarity information: CARMINE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARMINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A variable color averaging a vivid red

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

cardinal; carmine

Hypernyms ("carmine" is a kind of...):

red; redness (red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood)

Derivation:

carmine (color carmine)

carmine (of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies)

• CARMINE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies

Synonyms:

blood-red; carmine; cerise; cherry; cherry-red; crimson; red; reddish; ruby; ruby-red; ruddy; scarlet

Similar:

chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)

Derivation:

carmine (a variable color averaging a vivid red)

• CARMINE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Color carmine

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "carmine" is one way to...):

redden (make red)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

carmine (a variable color averaging a vivid red)

 Context examples 

The head was finished already: there was but the background to tint and the drapery to shade off; a touch of carmine, too, to add to the ripe lips—a soft curl here and there to the tresses—a deeper tinge to the shadow of the lash under the azured eyelid.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)